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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



little danger from robbers, if the oper- 

 ator is careful not to have a lot of dauby 

 combs exposed. 



The less honey in the combs the bet- 

 ter for transferring, and at the time of 

 fruit-bloom the supply on hand gets its 

 lowest. 



Later the combs are fuller ; if not 

 with honey, at least with brood. The 

 earlier transferring also gives a chance 

 for the bees to get in good condition for 

 harvest, although the transferring may 

 not materially interfere. 



"Driving" Bees Explained. 



In the answer to Elmer Bridenstine's 

 question, on page 489, what is meant 

 by "drive," and how is it done? How 

 are the bees united with the former 

 "drive?" Subscriber. 



Answer. — If an empty hive or box is 

 placed over an inverted box-hive contain- 

 ing a colony, all openings for the escape 

 of the bees being fastened up, and the 

 sides of the box-hive be continuously 

 pounded or drummed on for some time, 

 the bees will commence traveling up 

 into the upper hive or box, and if the 

 drumming be continued long enough, 

 nearly all the bees will go up. Such an 

 operation is called "driving" or "drum- 

 ming." "The former drive" means the 

 bees driven out at the former time of 

 driving. 



Amerikanische Bienenzucht is the 

 name of a bee-book printed in the Ger- 

 man language, which we now have for 

 sale. It is a hand-book on bee-keeping, 

 giving the methods in use by the best 

 American and German apiarists. Illus- 

 trated; 138 pages; price, postpaid, 

 $1.00. It is just the book for our Ger- 

 man bee-keepers. We club it with the 

 Bee Journal for one year, for $1.75. 



Alley's Queen-Rearing: book, 

 or "Thirty Years Among the Bees," 

 gives the result of over a quarter-cen- 

 tury's experience in rearing queen-bees, 

 and describing the practical, every-day 

 work. By Henry Alley. It contains an 

 "Appendix," showing the improvements 

 made in queen-rearing the last four 

 years. Very latest work of the kind. 

 Nearly 100 pages, with illustrations. 

 Price, postpaid, 50 cents ; or clubbed 

 with Bee Journal one year, for $1.30. 



19IR. ALLEX PRISiOLE. 



Bees and Honey" — see page 613. 



The subject of this sketch and illus- 

 tration, Mr. Allen Pringle, of Selby, 

 Ont., is Superintendent of the Ontario 

 Apiarian Department at the World's 

 Fair at Chicago. He was born 52 years 

 ago, on April 1, 1841, in Lennox 

 County, where he now resides. A por- 

 tion of the following sketch is from the 

 Canadian Bee Journal, and the balance 

 has been written by a friend of Mr. 

 Pringle's : 



At the age of ten, young Pringle might 

 have been seen on a wood sleigh one fine 

 morning in April, accompanying his 

 father to a neighboring house three 

 miles off to get their first " skep " of 

 bees. The colony was in what is now 

 called " the old box-hive," and they got 

 it home in good condition on the sled. 

 Thus commenced the young lad's exper- 

 ience in bee-keeping. 



Up to the age of fifteen he attended 

 the local school in winter and assisted 

 with the bees and farm work in summer. 

 By that time he had acquired all the 

 learning the average country school ped- 

 agogue could impart, besides quite a 

 fund of antiquated bee-lore. He now 

 began to think of doing something for 

 himself on his own account. Accord- 

 ingly one morning in May, bright and 

 early, the self-reliant and ambitious 

 youth started oflf on foot and alone to a 

 neighboring town several miles away to 

 attend an examination of candidates for 

 teachers' certificates. He was success- 

 ful, and duly received his certificate of 

 qualification to teach any common school 

 in the county. 



Soon after, at the age of fifteen, he 

 took a situation as teacher without as- 

 sistant, and there ended his own school- 

 ing with the exception of a subsequent 

 term or two in a high school. His ed- 

 ucation has been acquired for the most 

 part outside of schools and colleges. 

 For several years the winters were spent 



